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# חֹבָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2246

**Hobab** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hobab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2246/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹבָב: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2246/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cf. Ph. n.pr. חב; WeSkizzen iii, 171. 217 suggests compar. with حُباب serpent)—son of Reuel, חֹתֵן of Moses (v. חתן), Nu 10:29 (JE), Ju 4:11; ins. ח׳ prob. also Ju 1:16, v. GFM.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hobab (1); of Hobab (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.11/#tree)

וְחֶ֤בֶר הַקֵּינִי֙ נִפְרָ֣ד מִקַּ֔יִן מִבְּנֵ֥י חֹבָ֖ב חֹתֵ֣ן מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיֵּ֣ט אָהֳל֔וֹ עַד־אֵל֥וֹן בְּצַעֲנַנִּ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֶת־קֶֽדֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and Heber the Kenite \[was\].separated from.\[the\] Kenite\[s\] from the.descendants of.Hobab the.father-in-law of.Moses and he.had.pitched tent his to \[the\].great.tree in Zaanannim which \[is\].with Kedesh

*JPS 1917:* Now Heber the Kenite had severed himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as Elon-bezaanannim, which is by Kedesh.

[Numbers 10:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.29/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֗ה לְ֠חֹבָב בֶּן־רְעוּאֵ֣ל הַמִּדְיָנִי֮ חֹתֵ֣ן מֹשֶׁה֒ נֹסְעִ֣ים ׀ אֲנַ֗חְנוּ אֶל־הַמָּקוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה אֹת֖וֹ אֶתֵּ֣ן לָכֶ֑ם לְכָ֤ה אִתָּ֙נוּ֙ וְהֵטַ֣בְנוּ לָ֔ךְ כִּֽי־יְהוָ֥ה דִּבֶּר־ט֖וֹב עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Moses to Hobab the.son of.Reuel the Midianite the.father-in-law of.Moses \[are\].about.to.set.out we to the place which he.said Yahweh it I.will.give to you come with us and we.will.do.good to you (dm) Yahweh he.has.spoken good on Israel

*JPS 1917:* And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law: 'We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said: I will give it you; come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2246.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2246/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).